"Les Souffleurs, poetic commandos" is a collective of artists and poets of Franco-Japanese origin, known for their street poetic actions.

Dressed in elegant black, with an umbrella in hand and equipped with devices called WHISPERERS, the poetic commandos share poems in hushed tones whispered into the ears of people they encounter on the street. Through this action, they reclaim public space, creating intimate moments, pausing the hustle and bustle of passersby. They practice art in opposition to entertainment.

This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, led by María Maraña and Va de cuentos.

We offer you a proposal adapted to the online format, for those families who cannot attend in person. This month of October we celebrate the night of the deceased with this workshop dedicated to some of the most mythical characters of this celebration. We present you with some readings and creative proposals to play with mystery and magic. We begin with the witches.

This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, led by María Maraña and Va de cuentos. We offer you a proposal adapted to the online format, for those families who cannot attend in person. Today we discover books with holes or die-cut pages.

A hole in a book provokes curiosity and surprise in us, it is a path to the next page, it is a game. What could be on the other side?

Let's play hide and seek!

We are going to discover what is hidden in a hole.

This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, led by María Maraña and Va de cuentos. We offer you a proposal adapted to the online format, for those families who cannot attend in person. In this workshop I want to tell you about watercolor, one of the most used techniques in illustration. I bring you some illustrated albums with watercolors and some books that explain tricks and tips to us.

Finally, we will see how to make our own watercolors and become color alchemists!.

This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, led by María Maraña and Va de cuentos. We offer you a proposal adapted to the online format, for those families who cannot attend in person.

The forest is a common setting in children's literature. The forest as a place of adventure, as a labyrinth, or as a hiding place.

In this laboratory we discover the forest as a complex and wonderful living being that feels, communicates and cooperates. It is not just a setting, but also a main character.

Through some informative picture books we will discover that sometimes science releases enough magic to feed our imagination.

This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, led by María Maraña and Va de cuentos. We offer you a proposal adapted to the online format, for those families who cannot attend in person.

Today we are going to travel back to remote times to meet dinosaurs, mammoths and cave art.

And we are going to do it by following the trail of TRACES OF THE PAST.

We know that a trace is a mark left on the ground by an animal or person when stepping. Although other things can also leave traces, such as the wheel of a bicycle or a car.

Traces can give us clues if we know how to look at them.

For example, when we see animal traces in the mud, we will know that it passed by there a short time ago. If we pay attention to its shape, we will be able to find out how big it is or whether it is a mammal or a bird.

This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, led by María Maraña and Va de cuentos. We offer you a proposal adapted to the online format, for those families who cannot attend in person. I'm sure you've sung this famous folk song at some point.

In today's laboratory we recall it to introduce the theme and the selection of illustrated albums for this session.

Throughout this laboratory we will be weaving connections between readings, elephants, balances, Alexander Calder and his moving sculptures.

Will we manage it?

This is a reading promotion activity through art and play, which we carry out in the MACA Library in Alicante, led by María Maraña and Va de cuentos. This year we dedicated our letter and image laboratories to mythical characters and some rather curious ones from stories, and that's why we couldn't miss the opportunity to focus on redheads. Yes, yes, you heard right. And it's striking how many characters with orange hair appear in stories. Have you ever noticed?

Think back, or review your library and you're sure to find more than one.

On this occasion, and on the occasion of the opening of the exhibition, we will focus on the figure of Juana Francés. She is the most prominent of a group of women artists who began to exhibit in the 1950s of the last century and whose professional determination defied the society of her time. Facing a hostile, normative and rigid environment created by the political and social ideology of Francoism, she managed to remain attentive to plastic concerns and be part of a generation of artists who revolutionized the art of their time, driven by a coercive political, social and cultural situation.

Collaborates: Consorci de Museus de Generalitat Valenciana.

On the occasion of the closing of the exhibition "Kara Walker. Burning Village", we have scheduled a series of activities around her work.

One of them is our monthly session of "Great Artists Straight Up" which, as it could not be otherwise, this Saturday will be dedicated to her figure.